We have an update, folks.
Because they don’t even care about keeping their bullshit straight.
So the full sequence now runs:
(1) “The money isn’t missing, it’s all still there and ringfenced for a second indyref. Anyone who says otherwise is a loony conspiracy theorist.” (Feb 2020)
(2) “Okay, it’s not ringfenced, it’s woven in with everything else but it’s there and we will only spend it on a second indyref.” (Oct 2020)
(3) “We’ve still got all the money, even though it’s not in our bank account, and we’ve set up a special unit that’s going to spend it right now ‘on independence’, even though there’s no second indyref.” (Feb 2021)
(4) “Okay, the guy who was going to be in charge of spending it has quit in mysterious circumstances and the ‘independence unit’ doesn’t exist any more, and we’re not letting the treasurer look at the books to see where the money is so he’s resigned, but it’s all still there waiting for the imminent second indyref, honest.” (May 2021)
(5) “Okay, we’ve spent SOME of it but the rest is all still there, it’s just invisible and we can’t show it to you, though we could if we wanted to. The important thing is that there’s definitely none of it missing.” (Jun 2021)
(6) “Okay, we’ve spent about quarter of a million pounds of it now, despite there being no second indyref, although we can’t tell you what it was spent on, and there’s still absolutely loads left.” (Aug 2022)
(7) “There’s no missing money, we’ve still got it all. Sure, it’s not in the bank, but we’ve given ourselves an IOU or something and it’ll all magically appear when there’s a second indyref.” (Feb 2023)
(8) “Okay, we spent the lot, despite the continuing absence of a second indyref, but we can’t be any more specific about what on. Just, you know, general SNP stuff. Yes, the exact thing we swore we WOULDN’T spend it on.” (Jun 2026)
And now,
(9) “We couldn’t spend it because our chief executive stole it, despite all our strident denials that anything was missing, but if we get it back from him then we definitely will spend it – not on a second indyref, because there isn’t going to be one, but on SOMETHING, we just can’t say what, and frankly it’s pretty tasteless of you to ask because we’re victims of a crime, actually.” (Jun 2026)
Even when they think they’ve gotten clean away with it, lying about it is now so ingrained that they just can’t stop.
Maybe we should ask John Swinney to tell the story backwards. Because at worst, he couldn’t make very much more of a mess of it than he is now.
A big boy stole it, mysteriously unknown to us he gave it back, then stole it again, and then, I’m confused, what was this about again…
same old same old bunch of lying fuds.
Murrell was stealing before the Indyref fund was set up.
Brilliant
Honestly…you couldn’t make this shit up!
Well, in saying that, it appears that the SNP are quite capable of making up all sorts of shit more or less all of the time.
In fact, going back to Salmond’s trial, they seem to think they’re experts at making shit up and it’s everybody else’s fault when nobody believes them.
The only outstanding question which needs some form of resolution is…
Is the SNP as a collective demonstrating:
a) Compulsive lying
b) Pathological lying
c) Delusional behaviours
In any event, if ever a political party needed a straight jacket and a time-out in a padded cell it’s the SNP.
All of the above?
Maybe we should just cut the crap and give the SNP a collective lobotomy, after all if we stick ’em in the rubber room we’d have to let them out sometime.
How about the money has been in Ginger Bottle Deposits the whole time?
Time to stop digging that hole they are in.
My personal favourite has to be Beattie’s “woven through the accounts” bull.
Can’t decide whether that reflects his stupidity or sheer contempt for the public.